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Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock

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World rank, all time
#36,477
of 42,892
Rank in Zambia
#19
of 23
Research works
125
▲ 48% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.7k
13.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
76%
world 28%

What does Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Agricultural and Biological Sciences takes 9.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 20.5 works9.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 9.25× its world share, 20 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.51× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.43× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEnergy: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.07× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.71× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.92× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 3.55× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.57× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 9.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Genetic Diversity, Epidemiology, Food Security, Environmental Impact, Public Health, Pathogenesis, Climate Change and Biodiversity.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology8▲ 4.6×28 topics
  2. Genetic Diversity7▲ 33×11 topics
  3. Climate Change5▲ 3.7×22 topics
  4. Environmental Impact4▲ 5.4×10 topics
  5. Public Health4▲ 6.0×8 topics
  6. Food Security4▲ 14×7 topics
  7. Pathogenesis4▲ 15×8 topics
  8. Biodiversity3▲ 9.1×11 topics
  9. Sustainability3▲ 2.7×13 topics
  10. Sustainable Agriculture3▲ 20×3 topics
  11. Aquaculture2▲ 19×5 topics
  12. Social Networks2▲ 17×2 topics
  13. Antibiotic Resistance2▲ 12×4 topics
  14. Rural Development2▲ 13×4 topics
  15. Genetic Characterization2▲ 89×2 topics
  16. Gut Microbiota2▲ 10×4 topics
  17. Smallholder Farmers2▲ 16×2 topics
  18. Zoonotic Infections2▲ 63×2 topics
  19. Agricultural Innovation2▲ 73×1 topic
  20. Global Impact2▲ 19×3 topics
  21. Livelihood Diversification2▲ 107×1 topic
  22. Pathogen Transmission2▲ 48×3 topics
  23. Quantitative Genetics2▲ 61×2 topics
  24. Antimicrobial Resistance1▲ 15×6 topics
  25. Drug Resistance1▲ 11×4 topics
  26. Population Genetics1▲ 22×2 topics
  27. Ancient DNA1▲ 55×2 topics
  28. Domestication1▲ 56×2 topics
  29. Genomic Selection1▲ 62×1 topic
  30. Genomics1▲ 9.3×4 topics
  31. Marker-Assisted Selection1▲ 36×2 topics
  32. Phylogenetic Analysis1▲ 8.9×5 topics
  33. Plant Breeding1▲ 28×1 topic
  34. Probiotics1▲ 12×3 topics
  35. Agroecology1▲ 17×2 topics
  36. Bunyavirus1▲ 60×1 topic
  37. Chicken Domestication1▲ 169×1 topic
  38. Village Poultry1▲ 169×1 topic
  39. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers1▲ 60×1 topic
  40. Crop Production1▲ 21×2 topics

Which research topics does Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Livestock and Poultry Management and Viral Infections and Vectors.

Agricultural Innovations…2Agricultural Innovations and Practices: 2 fractional worksGenetic and phenotypic t…1Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock: 1 fractional worksLivestock and Poultry Management: 1 fractional worksViral Infections and Vec…1Viral Infections and Vectors: 1 fractional worksVector-Borne Animal Dise…1Vector-Borne Animal Diseases: 1 fractional worksFood Waste Reduction and Sustainability: 1 fractional worksAdvances in Cucurbitaceae Research: 1 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences1Plant and soil sciences: 1 fractional worksAnimal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 1 fractional worksVector-borne infectious diseases: 1 fractional works
General Agricultural and Biological SciencesGeneticsAnimal Science and ZoologyInfectious Diseases4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Agricultural Innovations and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 works
  2. 2 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 1 works
  3. 3 Livestock and Poultry Management Animal Science and Zoology 1 works
  4. 4 Viral Infections and Vectors Infectious Diseases 1 works
  5. 5 Vector-Borne Animal Diseases Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  6. 6 Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability Food Science 1 works
  7. 7 Advances in Cucurbitaceae Research Genetics 1 works
  8. 8 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 works
  9. 9 Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Agronomy and Crop Science 1 works
  10. 10 Vector-borne infectious diseases Parasitology 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available75.8%not open24.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors65.4%domestic only34.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 48% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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